Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former candidate said Heimert had invited her to have cocktails and dinner with Eliot students, but that an out-of-town commitment had forced her to decline. She said she hoped to schedule a meal with students later in the semester...
Beanpot Championships would certainly light up some faces here in Cambridge, but they're not the biggest 'Pots in town. Harvard has been known to take bigger pots home. Such as the ECAC Championship trophy. And a silver platter for finishing second in the NCAA Tournament...
...comes from right-wing sources in South Africa and the U.S. Determined to oust the Marxist-oriented Frelimo government in Maputo, Renamo has cut rail lines, sacked villages and destroyed countless schools and clinics since it began intensifying its attacks in 1981. In a particularly vicious assault on the town of Homoine last year, the rebels massacred nearly 400 civilians. "The destruction is maniacal," says U.S. Ambassador Melissa Wells...
...last November as he headed north with a truckload of corn. Mendes escaped by leaping from the cab of the truck, but a soldier and two others were wounded by gunfire. "Now I think a lot about my seven children," Mendes says. "I won't be going out of town for a long time...
...through. Western donors have supplied $22 million in trucks and tractors since 1984. CARE manages to move 11,000 tons of food and other relief supplies each month, mainly by road and rail. The routes, however, are often tortuously long. The straight-line distance from the northern town of Tete, a distribution center for relief shipments, to the famine-stricken Zumbo area on the western border is only 200 miles, yet the journey requires a 500-mile detour through Zimbabwe and Zambia. Round trips take at least ten days. Rail shipments from Zimbabwe to Maputo can take a month...